Research

A selection of essays, think pieces, interviews and reviews spanning theatre, music, film, contemporary art, design and culture.

A Different Light on Design
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

A Different Light on Design

As part of the The Start - Design Bridge’s junior programme, I visited a multi-sensory exhibition designed to foster a greater understanding of disability. Inspired by our experience, strategist Gayatri Rana and I were eager to discover the latest design innovations that provide for the needs of people with disabilities.

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Colour Outside the Lines - Review
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Colour Outside the Lines - Review

What do you find beautiful or ugly about King’s Cross? What makes you feel authentic? These were among the questions BA Culture, Criticism and Curation students asked audiences at Colour Outside the Lines - a Central Saint Martins degree show.

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Music re-makes what Parkinson’s breaks
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Music re-makes what Parkinson’s breaks

In anticipation of my dad’s second album launch, I consider how artists use their creative practice to think through their experience of disability and illness.

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The Hiss - Review
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

The Hiss - Review

What happens to the stories that stray from the traditional narrative arc? That defy explanation, but nonetheless are arresting to the extent they deserve to be shared?

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Witness
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Witness

André Singer’s lucid Holocaust documentary ‘Night Will Fall’ demonstrates the power of cinema and its role in urging awareness in the present day. But why was Sidney Bernstein’s footage of the Nazi Concentration Camps suppressed until today?

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Why Artworks?
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Why Artworks?

On the one hand, for as long as there is no consensus over whether art should be political, we are in danger of detracting from revolutionary art. On the other, perhaps it is this claim for autonomy which offers the Revolutionary protection.

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Lucia Cuba - Review
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Lucia Cuba - Review

Peruvian artist Lucia Cuba operates at the intersection between fashion design and social research; creating garments and other wearable items which function as performative and political devices.

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Drawing with Bodies
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Drawing with Bodies

1962 Manhatten, New York City. A group of visual artists, dancers, choreographers, musicians and writers assemble at the Judson Memorial Hall to collaborate and produce work that will transform the trajectory of performance art.

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Roma - Review
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Roma - Review

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma reveals to us the multilayering form of cinematic storytelling and all it can offer.

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Shame, Unearthed
Molly Coffey Molly Coffey

Shame, Unearthed

The harrowing truth about Ireland’s mother and baby homes reveals shame as an intensely feared, physically felt and performed emotion that can be ‘caught’ through contact.

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